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Google Cloud expands its database portfolio with new AI capabilities, including updates to its Spanner SQL database, which now supports graph and vector search (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-2 Database Google AI

The EU's AI Act takes effect, triggering compliance deadlines for a range of AI developers and apps; most provisions will be fully applicable by mid-2026 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-1 AI

OpenSecrets: the number of groups lobbying the US government on AI grew from 459 in 2023 to 556 in H1 2024; OpenAI spent $800K in H1 2024, vs. $260K in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-1 AI

Researchers: vulnerabilities in Badoo, Bumble, Grindr, happn, Hinge, and Hily let malicious users pinpoint locations to two meters; the apps fixed the issue (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-31

OpenAI begins rolling out ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, initially called out for sounding like Scarlett Johansson after its demo in May, to ChatGPT Plus users (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-31

Faye, which offers travel insurance and fintech services via a single smartphone app, raised a $31M Series B led by Portage; Faye raised a $10M Series A in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-30 Fintech Insurance

Qualcomm debuts the 4nm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2, a feature limited version of the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2, to make 5G accessible to smartphones in the sub-$100 category (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-30 5G

The US NTIA issues a report in support of “open-weight” generative AI models like Meta's Llama 3.1, but recommends the government to monitor for potential risks (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-30 AI

Meta releases Segment Anything Model 2 with support for object segmentation in videos and images; the code and weights are available under an Apache 2.0 license (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-30

A US court rules that US border agents must get a warrant before searching the electronic devices of Americans and international travelers crossing the border (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-30 U.S.

Q&A with Ghostery CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz about the service turning 15, the state of ad tracking, why regulation is not the best path to protecting online privacy (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-29

The US NIST re-releases Dioptra, an open-source web-based tool first unveiled in 2022 for benchmarking, testing, and assessing risks in AI models (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-29 AI

Indian crypto exchange WazirX announces a controversial plan to “socialize” the ~$230M loss from its recent security breach among all its customers (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-28 India

California DMV granted Nuro approval to test its third-gen R3 autonomous delivery vehicle in four Bay Area cities, a boost for the startup after some setbacks (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-28 Startup California

A decade-old drama between David Sacks and Parker Conrad has blown up into a fight on X over VC behavior, drawing in Paul Graham and other Silicon Valley names (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-26 Paul Graham

Meta says WhatsApp now has more than 100M MAUs in the US and that more than 50% of WhatsApp users in the country have an iPhone; WhatsApp has 2B+ MAUs globally (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-26 iPhone WhatsApp

Crunchbase: in H1 2024, generative AI startups raised $500M across 198 angel/seed deals, $8.7B across 39 early-stage deals, and $3.1B across 18 late-stage deals (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-25 Startup AI

Google debuts new Maps features in India to help users easily navigate though flyovers and narrow roads, says it built an AI model specifically for Indian roads (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-25 India Google AI

After investigating how Meta handles AI-generated explicit images, Oversight Board asks Meta to use the terminology “non-consensual” over “derogatory”, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-25 AI

Lakera, which helps enterprises protect generative AI apps from LLM vulnerabilities, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico, bringing its total funding to $30M (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-25 AI

Dazz, which provides AI-based cloud security remediation software for enterprises, raised $50M from Greylock and others, sources say at a ~$400M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-25 AI

Privacy-focused developer Proton debuts a self-custody bitcoin wallet, its first cryptocurrency product, initially available to early access users (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-25 Bitcoin Cryptocurrency

The Overture Maps Foundation, backed by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and others, releases four global open maps datasets; transportation remains in beta (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-24 Amazon Microsoft

India scraps “angel tax” for all classes of investors, a major victory to the country's startup ecosystem that had lobbied for years against the measure (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-24 India Tax Startup

Seattle-based QA Wolf, which helps companies automate QA testing for apps, raised a $36M Series B and opens a waitlist for Android and iOS test automation (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-24 Android IOS Seattle

Level AI, maker of AI-powered tools to automate customer service tasks, raised a $39.4M Series C led by Adams Street Partners, taking its total raised to $73.1M (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-24 AI

Mytra, a startup building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, launches from stealth with $78M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-24 Startup Robot

Harvey, which is building an AI-powered “copilot” for lawyers, raised a $100M Series C led by GV that values it at $1.5B and brings its total funding to $206M (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-24 AI

Posh, an iOS app that offers a TikTok-like vertical feed of events, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M, and claims 2M registered users (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-23 IOS

Vancouver-based Clio, which makes cloud tools to help law firms run more efficiently, raised a $900M Series F at a $3B valuation, up from $1.6B in April 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-7-23

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